Many learning events are listed at Learn (Learn.extension.org) for March including the events which are part of the National eXtension Conference to be web-streamed. These are for your own learning or for you to share with your audiences! Extend your knowledge and keep more up-to-date on conversations in your areas of expertise and interest.
Everyone is welcome to participate in the events listed at Learn (learn.extension.org) as they fit your interests. As part of Extension, you may sign in with your eXtensionID to Follow to get notifications and plan to attend. Use each session’s unique URL to share links to online events in your area of expertise so that others can learn with you. Encourage your customers to also sign in with their Facebook, Twitter or Gmail account to Follow, and plan to attend. Additional sessions may be added at any time, so check back to see what’s new, or please add web-based sessions you have planned to teach or at your institution.
National Extension Conference (Tag: nexconf)
As you’ve read elsewhere, our national conference will be in Sacramento on March 24-27, 2014. I hope you’ll join us there! But if you or colleagues won’t be in Sacramento, join us virtually by participating in some of the 53 sessions which will be web-streamed. The whole conference is listed in Lanyrd.com/2014/nexconf. Only those sessions to be web-streamed are also listed in https://Learn.extension.org/events/tag/nexconf with a link for each learning event.
To keep track of your professional development activity in Learn, sign in and click the Attended or Watched box for each event you participate in so that this list can be kept up-to-date for you.
Selected other topics in March...
March 7, All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series: Straight Talk About Termites. Learn how termites live and what you need to know to prevent them from recycling your things. https://learn.extension.org/events/1371
March 13, Incorporating Video into the Marketing Strategy. Hear about their business, how they can share customer experiences, and what it takes to create short video segments to benefit your business. https://learn.extension.org/events/1396
March 18, Using Lanyrd for National eXtension Conference. Learn key features of Lanyrd and how you can use it to enhance your conference experience, or when hosting your own conference. https://learn.extension.org/events/1460
March 19, Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Science for Young Children. Learn how to help young children develop problem solving, critical thinking, and communication life skills. https://learn.extension.org/events/1451
March 20, Common Consumer Frauds & How to Avoid Them. Learn the three common types of consumer frauds: identity theft, investment fraud, and income tax refund fraud. https://learn.extension.org/events/1500
Popular topics from February...
Your Network Is Your Net Worth. Porter Gale believes your social capital, or your ability to build a network of authentic personal and professional relationships, not your financial capital, is your most important asset. Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1428.
All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series: If Flowers are Restaurants to Bees, Then What Are Bees to Flowers? Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1370.Growing Raspberries and Blackberries with IPM. Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/ 1427.
Institutional Team Web Conference - February 2014. Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1338
The Value of Public Policy Engagement Programs. Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1429
Families & Child Well-Being Learning Network. Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1477
Savings Strategies for Non-Savers. Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1426
National eXtension Conference general and concurrent sessions in Learn:
March 25
·Dave Gray--Opening Keynote
·Ready Business--Using Multiple Technologies to Help Businesses Prepare for and Recover from Disasters
·Building Community is not a Project but a Process
·Using positive messaging and social media to reach new Extension clientele in sustainability outreach
·How web-based planning and reporting increased timely impact reporting and sharing Extension's success with constituents
·Promoting Extension--They come for the news. They stay for the programming
·Establishing Credibility, Continuity and Recognition of eXtension-Horses as “The” Land Grant University Equine Resource
·It's Bigger than a Facebook Page - SO MUCH BIGGER!
·Families and Child Well-Being Learning Network--Optimizing our Efforts to Build a “Virtual” Community
·Using Technology to Connect With New Audiences
·Ask an Expert--A New Marketing Toolkit For You!
·Learn how the organization affects learning and strategies for creating a positive learning environment.
·Question Wranglers' Meetup - March 2014
·Engaging Communities of Interest with PowerPoint Games, Animated Videos, and e-Learning Modules
·Being In Two (or Four) Places at Once: Leveraging Social Sites to Increase Content Discoverability
·Reaching Families through Technology: Training Extension Educators to Implement Technology in Their Work
·The Value and Effectiveness of Problem-based Learning for Community Nutrition Educators
·Facebook Insights Updates
·Delaware Cooperative Extension's Public Rollout of Ask an Expert
·Extension Online: Utilizing Technology to Enhance Educational Outreach
·Using Social Media for Ornamental Plant Pathology and Entomology Extension Education
·Open Extension Work and Social Media Utilization in the 21st Century
·Ask an Expert as a Tool for Engagement
·Quality Engagement Verse Quantity of Fans on Facebook and Twitter
·Innovative Approaches and Applications of the FReSH CoP
·Acknowledging Learning Achievement of Youth through Digital Badges
·Pinning for Success
March 26
·Google Helpouts
·Observations from the Edge of Engagement
·What Does It Mean to be Vulnerable? The Work & Focus of the CoP on the Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations
·How an Engaging Onsite Course Came to Life on the Web
·Taking EDEN to the next level via social media and distributed networks
·Exploring and using Ask an Expert Data
·The public value of citizen science
·For Youth, For Life Learning Network - An Overview
·Can Face-to-Face Professional Conferences Enhance "Virtual" Teams?
·Making a Not-So-Hot Topic Interesting with Social Media Tools
·The Networked Extension Professional
·Leveraging knowledge networks to extend sustainable agriculture
·Taking the Success of a Learning Network to the Next Level
·Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data: How To Measure Effective Social Media Practice
·The Ohio State University Extension's Ed Tech Pilot Project: Filling the Gap between Tech and the Professionals Who Use It
·Is My Horse the Right Weight? There's an App for That!
·Saving Volunteer Time with campus.extension.org
·Instagram for InstaProgramming - ideas on how a visual app can turn education into impact
·Farm mapping to assist, protect and prepare emergency responders: Farm MAPPER
·Why good science needs emotion to CaPTuRE its audience
·By automating social media processes, you can curate more efficiently, share more resources, and reach a larger audience
·New Platform + A Digital Strategy = Extension Publications Redefined
·Building Apps for That - Extending Information to Mobile Applications
·Super Panel: Dave Gray, Jane Hart, Harold Jarche and Beth Kanter
March 27
·Jane Hart--Keynote
·Harold Jarche and Jane Hart – Interactive Session
More…
Go to Learn (learn.extension.org) to see more sessions in 2014, and to add learning opportunities being offered by you or your institution so you may get more participation and learning!
Go to Learn (learn.extension.org) to see more learning opportunities...
Date/Time Title
March 13 – Incorporating Video into the Marketing Strategy
March 13 – Organic Blackberry Production: Tips Learned from an Ongoing Research Study
March 13 – The Use of Non-Qualified Distributions by Agricultural Cooperatives
March 17 – Dairy Reproduction: Identifying Problems and Solutions for Your Herd
March 17 – Managing Rootworms on the Fringe: Determining If You Have Bt Resistant Rootworms on Your Farm - Michigan State University Extension Field Crops Webinar Series 2014
March 18 – UGA Extension: Navigating the Affordable Care Act
March 18 – Using Lanyrd for National eXtension Conference
March 19 – A Family Member's Guide to Coping with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
March 19 – Community Gardens
March 19 – Conventional and Organic Weed Control in Sweet Corn, Pumpkin and Winter Squash
March 19 – NMPAN Webinar: Cost Analysis- Are You Making Money?
March 19 – Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Science for Young Children
March 20 – Common Consumer Frauds & How to Avoid Them
March 21 – Making Maximum Use of Nutrients in Liquid Manure
March 24 – Herbicide Site of Action: What's Next in Weed Control on the Farm? - Michigan State University Extension Field Crops Webinar Series 2014
March 25 – Breeding Efforts and Cover Crop Choices for Improved Organic Dry Bean Production Systems in Michigan Webinar
March 26 – Experimental Estimates for State Level Personal Consumption Expenditures
March 27 – Expediting the Commercialization of Biobased Products...
March 31 – Alternative Forages and Cover Crops - Michigan State University Extension Field Crops Webinar Series 2014
April 1 – Institutional Team Web Conference - April 2014
April 2 – Fertigation: Scheduling and Water Quality Considerations
April 3 – The Role of Wholesale Grocers in Rural Food Distribution...
April 3 – Trauma in Young Children Under 4-Years of Age: Attachment, Neurobiology, and Interventions
April 4 – All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series: Get TickSmart: 10 Things to Know, 5 Things to Do
April 7 – Milking System Design and Analysis
April 8 – NEWBio - Northeast Bioenergy Webinar Series
April 10 – Caregiver Identity Discrepancy
April 10 – Smart Choice Health Insurance: Findings Are In
April 10 – Composting for poultry
April 15 – Military Home Buying and Selling
April 16 – Extension Behavior Change: Measuring Outcomes of Landscape Site Visits and Individual Teachings
April 16 – Community Gardens
April 22 – Responding to an S.O.S. from the Commercial Beekeeping Industry
April 24 – Online Parenting Resources
April 25 – Master Equine Manager Certificate
April 25 – Building Rural Resiliency: Who Should Help? What Should They Do?
May 1 – Application of Genomics to Strawberry Breeding Webinar
May 1 – Application of Genomics to Strawberry Breeding
May 2 – All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series: Are Those Itsy Bitsy Spiders Good or Bad?
May 6 – Institutional Team Web Conference - May 2014
May 13 – 20 Steps to 7 Figures
May 21 – Community Gardens
May 29 – Fathers, Work, & Family Life
May 29 – Pasture egg production: Ameraucanas versus Delawares
May 30 – Survive or Struggle: Your Choice in a Business Disaster
June 3 – Institutional Team Web Conference - June 2014
June 6 – All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series: Fire Ant Management
June 9 – Lighting for small and backyard layer flocks
June 27 – NFIP and Floods
Questions and Comments? Contact Beth Raney at beth.raney@extension.org. If you have web-based events for which you would like more participation, please add them at Learn.extension.org for others to join in!
-- Beth Raney